Survey: Where Do You Get Your News?
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 11.16.07
The newsboys aren't on streetcorners anymore; there are so many ways to get information now. However we were surprised to learn from April's post that the old fashioned dead tree edition can in fact have less environmental impact than reading it on the computer (if it gets passed around a bit). Newspapers around the world are losing circulation, but where is it going?
UPDATE: I am so sorry about forgetting public radio like NPR, CBC and BBC. I cannot change a poll once it is up without losing all the votes.
NPR, which means talk radio, which according to the poll I must listen to Rush.
I second the NPR vote. My local station (VPR) just split into a news channel and a music channel, so I spend all day in my off-grid office listening to the news.
Yup, poll too limited. I get news from NPR, BBC radio off of XM, blogs, online versions of papers and some TV. Maybe we need more choices and have check boxes instead of radio buttons.
NPR, Democracy Now, BBC Radio, etc.
The blog number is inflated by my vote also.
Not going to click on Rush. Not going to do that.
Hi,
Online mostly. I listen to and read left and right so much it's like windshield wipers but TreeHugger is a daily (... hourly?) staple. So much gets cranked out here partly because technology is evolving so rapidly and there is a great appetite in a lot of people who really want to do the right things.
Keep on keepin on!
vsk
which according to the poll I must listen to Rush
Denying that you pay copious attention to right-wing hate media is sad.
Forgot NPR.
NPR. how could you leave it out? I hardly think it qualifies as "talk radio"
Totally NPR....
What about a combination? I get my news from books (love Al Franken and Michael Moore, who are more investigative than any reporter I've ever seen), TV (mainly just to make fun of Brian Williams), The New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, NPR, a local news radio station, the New Yorker, some other news magazines, Discover, Scientific American, www.enn.com, www.greencarcongress.com, Treehugger, www.refdesk.com (they have most of the newspapers in the world's online versions), Car and Driver, and other sources, depending on my mood.
A well-informed citizen isn't limited to one source.
I make a point of listening to:
NPR from the USA,
ABC from Australia and
BBC from UK.
It's interesting to see which stories are picked up and how they're treated.